Edmund Morris Quotes
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A great painting is a great painting.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
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Roads were made for journeys not destinations.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
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I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.
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My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India.
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Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies.
